{"id":17518,"date":"2017-06-01T18:28:16","date_gmt":"2017-06-01T17:28:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/?p=17518"},"modified":"2017-06-01T18:28:16","modified_gmt":"2017-06-01T17:28:16","slug":"picture-in-time-blackpool-balloon","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/?p=17518","title":{"rendered":"Picture in Time: Blackpool Balloon"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In this instalment of Picture in Time we take another trip to Blackpool as we feature a tram arriving back at Rigby Road Depot presumably after another busy day on the Prom.<\/p>\n<p><!--more-->This is October 1962, a very different time today as there were no problems in enthusiasts accessing the depot to take photos as evidenced here with the photographer standing just inside the main depot as the tram rounds the curve into one of the higher numbered roads. Unfortunately it is not possible to positively identify the Balloon Car as it arrives at the depot although it does still feature twin destination blinds so there are some trams we know it isn\u2019t but that doesn\u2019t quite help with a full identification. The tram also carries the ubiquitous side adverts for Empire Pools.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_17519\" style=\"width: 560px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/?attachment_id=17519\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-17519\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-17519\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-17519\" title=\"balloon-bh\" src=\"http:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/balloon-bh-550x367.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"550\" height=\"367\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/balloon-bh-550x367.jpg 550w, https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/balloon-bh-1024x683.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/balloon-bh.jpg 1275w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 550px) 100vw, 550px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-17519\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Photograph by Bob Hodges<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In this instalment of Picture in Time we take another trip to Blackpool as we feature a tram arriving back at Rigby Road Depot presumably after another busy day on the Prom.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[7,35],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17518"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=17518"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17518\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":17521,"href":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17518\/revisions\/17521"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=17518"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=17518"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=17518"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}